neat! June 6, 2008

look at this neat ticker i created through myfitnesspal.com

Created by MyFitnessPal – Free Calorie Counter

now i can track my progress with a little orange fish, just what i always wanted!
today has been a light food day so far, i’m stuck at the office for longer than i normally would be on a friday and i hurried out the door this morning so i had to pack all of my food and i ended up just throwing a bunch of stuff in the bag.
breakfast was my yummy cottage cheese-vanilla yogurt muesli and the rest of my fresh cantaloupe. this breakfast is my favorite because it’s uber filling and incorporates all of my favorite flavors. i only have one pre-portioned serving left so i guess i’ll just have to make more!

i got distracted doing a bunch of stuff while i was eating (because i was already in the office) even though i know i’m not supposed to multi-task anything with eating i didn’t really have a choice this morning. the busy-ness caused me to forget to take a picture ’til i was almost done with it and forget the cantaloupe altogether. but everyone knows what cantaloupe looks like… delicious.
lunch was an avocado-tuna nicoise pita, again. i’m over it, didn’t even take a pic. i need some variety in my lunch! i’m craving a really good salad. i’ve got a few favorites but they’re all from expensive restaurants and have dressings that i’m sure are too good to be low-cal. to surprise my tastebuds with something different, i had half a grapefruit with some splenda sprinkled on top.

and that’s it! that’s all i’ve eaten today. just 655 calories. i’m not hungry, i just wish i had some flavor. i can’t wait ’til my larabars come in the mail!

a restocked fridge is a happy fridge June 4, 2008

after getting in my long hard sweaty workout and sampling the larabar i felt strong enough to hit up the grocery store on my way home. i needed some basics and i swear, i stuck to them. no picture of the groceries but one of the highlights was the 99 cent cantaloupe! i didn’t have enough time this morning to chop it open but maybe i’ll do it when i get home tonight, although that’s also unlikely. let’s be honest, i’m not really motivated to do anything when i get home after a long day and tonight is going to be a late one. i have spin (hour-long spin, not half-hour prep for boot camp spin) ’til 630 then i have to book it across town to be late (it’s ok, i cleared it with the director) for my volunteer meeting that was set to start at 6 and will run until 8. then i need to stop at my parent’s house (it’s in the same part of town as where the meeting is) to see the baby because he’s been sick and i haven’t had a chance to go over there.
so anyway, i restocked my fridge with my favorite food staples and came up with this for breakfast:

which was also great because it was good on-the-go and i had to be here early today. it’s a flax waffle and a cherry smoothie made with light vanilla soymilk and flax oil. theme for breakfast was flax, clearly.
but backtracking a little bit, dinner was a pita pocket with avocado and two chicken slices with a drizzle of mom’s salsa. perfect and only 221 calories.

i didn’t need any more than that after the snack attack!
p.s. i burned about 662 calories working out according to myfitnesspal.com

pita pockets=love June 2, 2008

i might eat everything i ever consume for the rest of my life inside a pita pocket. they’re amazing, i get the sandwich feel for half the calories. i mean, who can eat only one piece of bread at a time anyway? i gotta have my filling surrounded by bread on each side, call me crazy.
lunch was a whole wheat pita pocket with mashed avocado, leftover tuna salad from this weekend and some spinach leaves with a cup of grape tomatoes on the side for a grand total of 395 calories.

i know, i’m awesome. check this out:

and i got to eat it! i can’t wait to see how many combinations i can come up with to fill these suckers. stay tuned…

friday June 2, 2008

for lunch i had lettuce wraps with avocado for 285 calories:

and snack was lots of carrots. i tried to soften them in the microwave but it didn’t really work. i initially put some hummus on the side but the flavors together didn’t agree with me so i just ate all the carrots for 88 calories.

later on before the cocktail reception for SATC i had an apple enchilada that melissa had written about a few times. to add some healthy fat i used a 1/2tbsp. of vanilla bean olive oil. it helped the cinnamon and splenda coat really well! second snack/light dinner was 255 calories.

i’ll make a separate post about the reception because my pictures got separated for some reason. later on that night after the movie i had a makeshift quesadilla in one of the pita pockets with laughing cow and kraft free cheddar. i dipped it in a little of mom’s blended salsa. 164 calorie midnight snack.

oh, and the last of my fresh blueberries because i didn’t want them to go bad over the weekend while i was gone. i guess i could have frozen them… oh well, they were tasty!

ok, that completes friday except for the festivities. it’ll be out of chronological order when i finally get around to posting it but i promise i will!